The Barbara Bush I remember
From a first-floor window in the family's summer home on Walker's Point, Barbara Bush spied me standing bemused, shivering and overcoat-less.
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The return of the 'old-fashioned'
Call me old-fashioned -- and I've been called worse -- but do I sense the possible end to the sexual revolution, which exploded in the Sixties and whose fallout continues today?
The G-men and their emojis
Once upon a time in a previous century I was invited to watch a widely banned movie, "I Am Curious Yellow," in company with a number of FBI agents and officials to see just how naughty it was. I had written about censorship and whether the movie was over the line of decency.
When 'The Bomb' prevented a war
Will historians ever acknowledge that the atomic bomb, despite its horrors, stands as the most effective anti-war weapon in history?
The whining party's scare tactics
For a long time, the Democrats have been successful by scaring people into voting for them. It's a tactic used when you can't persuade people on policy.
Middle East missions to accomplish
Can we at least agree that President Trump's decision to strike three chemical weapons facilities owned and operated by Bashar Assad — vassal of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Russia — was consistent with American values?
The wrath of the frustrated elites
William Casey was my lawyer. One day I came into my office and found a large man sitting on my desk. I greeted him amiably, and he greeted me amiably. Yet, he was still siting on my desk. At some point in our meeting we settled into a more conventional seating arrangement, and Bill began to tell me about the world as he analyzed it at the time, the late 1970s. I then made two decisions. If Bill agreed to be my lawyer I could take on anyone. What is more, he knew prodigious amounts about the world. He had brought charts and maps. He would be my foreign policy adviser.
Wisconsin's long political winter
As the temperature in Washington edged up toward 80 over the weekend, Madison and most of the rest of Wisconsin was fighting one of the worst snowstorms that had hit the state in years. Motorists were warned to stay off the roads. Snow, wind and temperatures in the teens or lower made one question whether spring is, in fact, just around the corner.
The Clintons and the rule of law
Former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch, in a NBC interview last Monday, reopened a can of worms. In the interview, Ms. Lynch defended her private meeting with Bill Clinton back on June 27, 2016.
What the thick tire smoke at the Gaza-Israel border means
Since March 30, Hamas' violent protests on the Gaza-Israel border have garnered intense media coverage.
How online gambling lures the most vulnerable
With the rise of cheating bots, the potential for money laundering and terrorism financing, and most recently, the revelation that Kim Jong-un maintains an online gambling hacker army to help fund his regime in North Korea, the integrity of virtual casino style games has long been in question. Now, skepticism has spread to the online gambling corporations themselves. Earlier this month, our very worst fears about the predatory practices of these corporations were confirmed in a new expose by Business Insider. Screenshots obtained by the publication reveal how internet casinos actively lure the most vulnerable among us.
New threat to tax cuts
Congressional Democrats are campaigning for control of Congress in November on a pledge to repeal the recent tax reform tax cuts. That would increase taxes on working people and their employers, taking back the jobs, bonuses, pay raises, and economic growth and recovery that tax reform is already producing.
A timely warning on the dangers of political tribalism from both the left and the right
There are many things the liberal establishment can't come to terms with. Reality is one. Amy Chua -- the best-selling author most famous for her "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" -- is another. It's not that Ms. Chua is a conservative. She isn't. And it certainly isn't because she is a white, male chauvinist Trump supporter. She's an Asian-American, a woman , a law professor at Yale, and anything but a fan of The Donald.
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